The Washington Post is hurting, and new circulation numbers show how bad the hurt is.

In just more evidence that the turmoil in U.S. newsrooms is far from over, Washington Post Executive Editor Marcus Brauchli wrote in an email today that the newspaper would offer voluntary buyouts to newsroom employees.

A lengthy stream of names, many of them seriously big time folks, keeps rolling out of the Washington Post newsroom today as senior reporters, editors and columnists are coming to final decisions about their buyout offers. The face of the Post is about get a lot younger and a lot less familiar to its readers. The two biggest names to come out of today’s round of buyout acceptances are longtime sports columnist Tony Kornheiser and…

Major shakeups are afoot at the Washington Post. First, Katharine Weymouth, the granddaughter of late Washington Post Co. chairman Katharine Graham, has been named chief executive of a new division to be called Washington Post Media, which will place both The Washington Post print edition and washingtonpost.com under the same direction. City Desk asks the key question here: Will this mean the end of the 3.4-mile trek between the two operations? For the uninitiated: The…